21.   Forbes wants to increase the military payroll but he has not articulated an overarching view on defense policy.

22.   Forbes wants to increase the military payroll but he has not articulated an overall view on defense policy.

23.   He outlined his national defense policy at a speech in September at The Citadel.

24.   He was then archbishop of Cincinnati and headed the committee that drafted a much-debated pastoral letter from the hierarchy on nuclear arms and American defense policy.

25.   His national defense policies and his cordial relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev undoubtedly hastened an end to the Cold War.

26.   If Gramm is that president, defense policy will be based on need and not on politics.

27.   In his first five months in office, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ensconced himself in his Pentagon office to rethink defense policy in sphinxlike silence.

28.   It also designates a full-time coordinator of European foreign and defense policy, a job given yesterday to Javier Solana, the current secretary-general of NATO.

29.   It is both bad budget policy and bad defense policy.

30.   It does in fact deal with defense issues and is striving for a common foreign and defense policy.